Wisconsin Bartender License

Wisconsin Responsible Beverage Service Course

Wisconsin Bartender License

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Wisconsin Responsible Beverage Service Course

This is the required Wisconsin Responsible Alcohol certification course. This Serving Alcohol course is approved and required by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue as Wisconsin alcohol certification. It's also known as the Wisconsin Alcohol Server Permit or Wisconsin Bartender License. Our training fully complies and is recommended by Wisconsin for Statutes 125.04, 125.17, and 134.66. Our alcohol certification course gives you with the tools to sell or serve alcohol responsibly.

The Wisconsin Municipal Clerks Association fully endorses and recommends Serving Alcohol Inc. for alcohol certification of Wisconsin residents. Since 1985, we have alcohol certified tens of thousands of individuals and businesses over the last 34 years. This course is created by former bar and restaurant managers, bartenders, and servers. Free certificate and wallet card given immediately after completion.

Quick and Easy

It's easy to begin and complete in one sitting or take our training course at your leisure. Leave and come back to the course as many times as needed. When you return, the training will pick up where you last had left.

Use Any Device

Our courses can be completed on any computer, laptop, tablet, or cellphone. Your certificate is available to you immediately upon completion as an emailed PDF file. Complete it tonight and email to your manager before going to work tomorrow. Select your course, click Enroll Now, complete the course and print your certificate!

Required By State & Insurance Carriers

The state of Wisconsin does require anyone who sells and serves alcohol to be Wisconsin alcohol certified. Plus, most liability insurance carriers for alcohol serving establishments (restaurants, bars, taverns, night clubs, etc.) require all employees to be alcohol certified. They will require your staff remain current with state rules, regulations, and laws, in regards to the service of alcohol. As a result, more businesses are requiring our alcohol training course certificate as a condition of employment.

Testimonials

Good basic course. It gave me examples of what I need to learn and study in order to land a bartending job.

Monica - Bartender Skills Training

great site and course, easy to use.

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Our Alcohol Training Course

Serving Alcohol has over 35 years of experience in teaching alcohol certification principles and in-depth knowledge. You'll learn alcohol awareness, intervention techniques, server duties, carding procedures, and state laws. All in a simple online alcohol server training course that is easy to understand. If you're a bartender, a waiter / waitress, or server looking to achieve your bartender license or server permit, then our course is the one you'll need.

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Bartending can be a fun time. It gives you the ability to work in a lively and fun social environment, meet some interesting people, and most of all, leave with some extra cash in hand. Since bartending is primarily night work, it leaves your days free to work another job or finish college. Bartenders are subject to legal requirements that govern the alcohol industry. In Wisconsin, applying and obtaining a bartender license is required. Meeting bartender license requirements for Wisconsin is the first step to become a professional bartender.

Qualifications

In order to receive a Wisconsin bartender license, applicants are required to be over age 18, meet criminal record requirements and be certified by an approved school, according to the website Wisconsin Responsible Serving. You do not need to currently hold a bartending job in order to apply for and receive a Wisconsin bartender license. Licenses are only valid within your municipality; if you move, you’ll need to seek additional licensing. Municipalities are defined as the city, town or village where you live; requirements and regulations may vary depending on location.

Obtain a Wisconsin Bartender License (Alcohol Operator License) from the municipality where you work. The city clerk typically issues the Wisconsin Bartender License. The requirements can be different for each municipality. See below for a listing of Wisconsin cities, towns and villages. There are links to websites and in some cases to the applications for a Wisconsin Bartender License for that municipality.

You need to take this Wisconsin responsible beverage server course to get a license, unless you have taken this course in the past two years, or have had a valid Wisconsin Bartender License in the past two years (in any municipality). The municipality may have additional requirements.

All of the Wisconsin clerks are aware of our program and consider us a valuable vendor.

The last requirement can be waived if it is a renewal application or if you held an alcohol beverage license, including an operator's license, within the past two years. The municipality may issue you a provisional operator's license if you are enrolled in a responsible beverage server course when you apply. An operator's license is only good in the municipality that issues it. For instance, if you are issued an operator's license in the City of Milwaukee, you may not use it in a suburban municipality, like Franklin.

A criminal record may prevent you from getting a license, see the municipality you want to work in below, ask the city clerk about specifics if they are not mentioned in the Bartender's License Instructions below.

Wisconsin Alcohol Age To Sell or Serve

Age to consume: 21 Age to serve: 18 Age to sell (retail): 18 Age to pour: 18 Wisconsin Alcohol Hours of Operation

On Premise Establishments Hours of Operation

Sunday thru Thursday 6:00 a.m. - 2 a.m. (the next day)

Friday & Saturday 6:00 a.m. - 2:30 a.m. (the next day)

There is no closing time for the New Year's holiday.

No carry out sales between 12:00 midnight - 6:00am

- local ordinances may further restrict carry out sales hours

Off Premise Hours of Operation

Wine & Liquor

Monday thru Sunday, 6:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m.

Wine Sampling 11:00am until 7:00pm

Beer

Monday thru Sunday, 6:00 a.m. until Midnight

Beer Sampling 11:00am until 7:00pm

Wisconsin's DRAM Shop Law

125.035 Civil liability exemption: furnishing alcohol beverages. (1) In this section, person has the meaning given in s. 990.01 (26). (2) A person is immune from civil liability arising out of the act of procuring alcohol beverages for or selling, dispensing or giving away alcohol beverages to another person. (3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the person procuring, selling, dispensing or giving away alcohol beverages causes their consumption by force or by representing that the beverages contain no alcohol. (4) (a) In this subsection, provider means a person, including a licensee or permittee, who procures alcohol beverages for or sells, dispenses or gives away alcohol beverages to an underage person in violation of s. 125.07 (1) (a).(b) Subsection (2) does not apply if the provider knew or should have known that the underage person was under the legal drinking age and if the alcohol beverages provided to the underage person were a substantial factor in causing injury to a 3rd party. In determining whether a provider knew or should have known that the underage person was under the legal drinking age, all relevant circumstances surrounding the procuring, selling, dispensing or giving away of the alcohol beverages may be considered, including any circumstance under subds. 1. to 4. In addition, sub.(2) does apply if all of the following occur:

1. The underage person falsely represents that he or she has attained the legal drinking age. 2. The underage person supports the representation with documentation that he or she has attained the legal drinking age. 3. The alcohol beverages are provided in good faith reliance on the underage persons representation that he or she has attained the legal drinking age. 4. The appearance of the underage person is such that an ordinary and prudent person would believe that he or she had attained the legal drinking age. (5) Subsection (2) does not apply to civil forfeiture actions for violation of any provision of this chapter or any local ordinance in conformity with any provision of this chapter.